Can a biologist fix a radio?
"Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis"
Amusing paper talking about how biologists approach problems, or something.
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User Inyerface - A worst-practice UI experiment
Really rather funny exploration of some of the worst design elements you can find on the Web.
Blood/brain barrier
Wikipedia page that explains the blood/brain barrier
“Perl 6 is Cursed! I hate it!” | Aearnus’ Realm
File under "does Poe's law apply to programming languages?"
Kivy: Cross-platform Python Framework for NUI Development
Library that provides a cross-platform application framework for Python. Works with many operating systems.
Write once. Deploy everywhere.— BeeWare
Write your apps in Python and release them on iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web, and tvOS using rich, native user interfaces. Multiple apps, one codebase, with a fully native user experience on every platform.
Rebuttal to Stallman’s Story About The Formation of Symbolics and LMI
A comprehensive rebuttal to the story that rms tells about Symbolics and the history of Lisp Machines.
BED File Format
Article that outlines the format of BED files.
I Can't Stop Winning (Pinboard Blog)
Happy birthday Pinboard!
Python consumes a lot of memory or how to reduce the size of objects? / Habr
Interesting article about the size of data structures in Python.
Brian Lonsdorf: Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong! – FunctionalTalks.org
Talk about things to do with JavaScript, functional programming, etc.
Rick Doblin: The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy | TED Talk
Statistics with Julia
PDF detailing using Julia for data stats.
Shekhar Kirani on Twitter: "10x engineersFounders if you ever come across this rare breed of engineers, grab them. If you have a 10x engineer as part of your first few engineers, you increase the odds of your startup success significantly.OK, here is a to
File under complete and utter bollocks. Unintentionally funny utter bollocks.
RaGOO/setup.py at master · malonge/RaGOO
Setup for a Python tool I found on GitHub, which is a library and also scripts. This might serve as a good template for pydscheck, as I'd like to get it properly packaged.
Fish shell support · Issue #32 · pyenv/pyenv
Issue regarding adding Fish support to pyenv. A very old issue now, but useful in that it details how to configure your shell and why you do it the way you do.
John Wick by MuriloDev
Fun fake NES take on a John Wick game. Really kinda tricky to play, but fun too.
How can I use Django permissions without defining a content type or model? - Stack Overflow
Nice answer to the question: how do I make a permission that I can assign to users and groups, in Django, without needing to create a model in the database.
ST.25 - Standard for the presentation of nucleotide and amino acid sequence listings in patent applications
Emacs users are like Igor
An amusing description of your average Emacs user.
EmacsConf - Main Page
The Emacs conference. The 2019 conference is online.
Projectile ignoring .projectile files : emacs
Helpful comment on configuring projectile so that it finds a project under strict control. I want to be fully in control of what appears to be a project, and this is what I needed.
How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases · Mathias Bynens
Bloody MySQL doesn't support full unicode by default. O_o 💩
MySQL and storing emoji: proper utf8mb4 with Django | exana.io
The MySQL unicode issue as seen from a Django point of view.
Turn off macOS screenshot floating thumbnail
The floating thumbnail thing that's how macOS screenshots work now is really quite annoying. This tweet contains handy information on how to turn it off.
fselect: Find files with SQL-like queries
Handy-looking alternative to
find, which a SQL-like language for querying what's found. Handles .gitignore files so there's no going into places you don't want it to.YAML: Probably no so great after all
Article that details some of the problems with YAML
Monologue: A Future Message From Generation X’s Reverse Mortgage Pitchman, Trent Reznor
I don't know; but I know I sniggered.
Placeholder support for contentEditable elements, without JavaScript
Handy method of adding placeholder-a-like text to contenteditable elements in a document.
Men. Abuse. Trauma. | Philosophy Tube
Very compelling video detailing one person's experience of abuse within a relationship, and connecting it to wider issues of mental health.